The Power Of The Grimm Brothers' Collection Of Folktales with Allan G. Hunter, Ph.D.

MP3 Download Fairytales have given pleasure and delight for centuries, and ultimately many of them have been a source of wisdom for generations of people, who had no psychology textbooks to reference, and no certified therapists to consult. However, in recent decades we’ve “Disneyfied” them and assimilated commercialized versions, while the real tales ­full of wisdom ­remain unread. The collection of tales by the Grimm brothers deal with some very murky human passions, and they hold the possibility of a productive way of being, on the other side of difficulty. In the early 1800s, the Grimm brothers carefully wrote down stories from itinerant storytellers, who were basically an endangered species and dying out. Being academics, they recognized the power of these folktales and understood they shouldn’t be lost. Hunter points out, “We can’t get to that real wisdom if we don’t get back to the original tales and see how very different they are from Disney’s wonderful, but saccharin and sucr